Slowly rising power supplies will trip a PIC up. There is a minimum dV/dT of something like 5 V/uSec needed. RTFM will find it. No amount of resets will recover a PIC that has been powered up slowly.
I had this problem with a current limited power supply that slowly rose in voltage as it had to charge a big cap.
Minimise input storage capacitors, or put them direct across your PSU before the power switch so they can supply a burst current to the PIC circuitry and get the Vdd up within the allowed time.
HTH
BrianT
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